A Little Bit Wicked

[unexculpable]

[At first glance it would be hard to tell that something was wrong. Look a little harder and you might start to see it. The look in his eyes, the tone of his voice, the way he carries himself. This is the look of a man who stopped caring a long time ago. Who eventually succumbed to the horrors he was pitted against and let himself become just like the monsters he was trying to stop.

It's easy to break people when you know how to do it. When you know exactly what to say, what to do, what buttons to press and when, how to push and push and push until everything they were shatters.

Ed was more difficult than others, but he was only human. He could only stand so much. Use the stone, they told him. Destroy this village and carve a crest of blood. He refused. They couldn't touch him, they needed him alive. But his friends...? They didn't need them. Take away the people he loved the most. Make him watch as they pleaded and cried. Make him sit there and listen to their desperate calls for help. Listen to his family scream and beg for mercy. Make him watch them bleed. Watch them die. Watch, Edward Elric, as everything you love is ripped away. You can stop this, they told him. Just do what we say. Use the stone.

One person could only take so much and in the end he agreed to do what they wanted. He took the Stone and well you know what they say. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.]